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• Antje Pieters Koster, Eestrum († 1875)
• Dingel Adriaans Blok, Noordbroek gemeente Menterwolde Groningen († 1852)
• Adam Roelofs, Eldrik († 1856)
• Cornelis Roodhart, Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland († 1858)
• Aantje BAAN, Sliedrecht
• Antje~Pieters Koster, Eastermar († 1875)
• ANNA BREUGELMANS, Lille († 1817)
• Domis Leendertszn Schellevis, Sommelsdijk († 1878)
• "Françoise" Henriette Marie Louise de Vassinhac († 1850)
• Aantje Aarts BAAN, Sliedrecht

• Anna Maria FEIJEN, Oirschot,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gerardus Lut (Luijtres) (68), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert (11), Ulrum
• Cornelis (Arijsz) Oosthoek (63), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruij Ringelberg (1)
• Barteld Berentsen (Hietveld), Vorden
• Antoine Lalonde (73), Vaudreuil, 1654554, Quebec, Canada
• Geertje Arents Kors (62)
• Gerardus Lut (68), Leiden
• Charlotte Johanna (72), unbekannt

• 1742 » Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal († 1819)
• 1770 » Ludwig van Beethoven, composer († 1827)
• 1775 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer († 1834)
• 1775 » Jane Austen, English novelist († 1817)
• 1776 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher († 1810)
• 1778 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier († 1841)
• 1787 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright († 1855)
• 1790 » Leopold I of Belgium († 1865)
• 1804 » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 1889)
• 1812 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales († 1867)

• 1687 » William Petty, English economist and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1751 » Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700)
• 1774 » François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1783 » Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator (b. 1699)
• 1783 » Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720)
• 1805 » Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746)
• 1809 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

The temperature on December 16, 1786 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.